Sergei Sviatchenko

Sergei Sviatchenko (* 1952 in Kharkov ) is a Ukrainian artist.

Life

Sviatchenko in 1975 received training as an architect and artist in the Academy for Art and Architecture in Kharkiv, and in 1986 he reached the Ph. D. at the School of Architecture in Kiev. Sviatchenkos style is a form of abstract expressionism, in which he repeatedly repainted the subject. In his landscape paintings, the depth is often more important than the subject itself

Sviatchenko widespread experimentation with media and installations. The early medium is acrylic paintings on canvas, but Sviatchenko has also made installations, photography and video art. Furthermore, he also manipulated photos. The collage was what made ​​him famous in Ukraine. Abstract art in the Soviet Union was not respected, where the art should serve the regime.

Since the middle 1970s Sviatchenko worked with collagen, and since the mid- 1980s with paintings.

The inspiration for his art has Sviatchenko among others by surrealism and architecture. Artists such as Michelangelo and Le Corbusier, who have managed to combine art with the architecture, are his role models. The father of Sergei, Yevgeny Swjatschenko, who was an architect and also worked himself as an artist in water colors, but it was his main inspiration. He was the son of Russian art from the period before the October Revolution in 1917, where especially the white color for the light and the space was crucial.

Sviatchenko lived in Denmark since 1990.